Tuesday, February 2, 2010

perspective- diary entry

As usual when the dawn rose up, I got dressed, ate breakfast, and got ready for the school. But that was just the morning! Well, my afternoon was great which almost made me think that today is a lovely day until it… really happened. That afterschool was a horrible day for Jack since I dared John to beat him up this evening so I could make a video and post it on YouTube.
The afternoon finally came. As John told, I got to follow Jack to see where he went. After the bell rang, I walked behind Jack but suddenly he turned and had a look around. I was sure that he knew there would be something wrong. As he walked along the side of the street, he passed a beautiful park with a colorful playground and a big grass pitch which made him really relaxed.
I hid behind the tree which was a bit further away from Jack. Suddenly from the bush, there were two guys jumped out.
“Aye kid!”
I’ve heard that voice before. That was right! It was John. Without saying anything else, he immediately punched right on Jack’s nose which made me start to feel really interested. I came closer and closer, I saw Jack was dizzy but he still tried to hit John back but hopeless, there came Justin. He came from behind and had a powerful kick to Jack’s back. Jack fell off and bumped his face to the ground, his glasses were broken and the piece of glasses stuck into his eyes so he wouldn’t see anything as he was in a really terrible pain. I started to be horrified! I was scared to get my camera out but I did after I looked around and saw that there were many people standing around and stared at Jack without helping. Some of them mocked and laughed at him and some of them also made a video. They were as violent as me so I didn’t really care much about being helpless. I got my camera on my hands but I still refused somehow. What if the viewers think that I’m so cruel when I saw it and I couldn’t help? I stood there, staring at the violent, forceful…interesting fight. Finally, I gave myself another thought. If I film it, I might get more than a thousand views as this fight was so cool. I might explain that I am a girl and I couldn’t help otherwise they would beat me up too. Yes! That was a great idea. I started to film it after I thought clearly about it. Again I saw them keep kicking Jack, punching him and one more thing that I didn’t expect to happen, stealing. John took out Jack’s old brown wallet and his gold watch, he opened it and immediately took all of the money and his lunch card then he threw the wallet to Jack’s face. I couldn’t believe what I just saw as everyone knows that John was a really nice boy, and everyone knows that Jack was a rich arrogant boy but today, Jack was beaten up by John and Justin. I turned my camera around, seeing people still laughing, still mocking, and still cheering. I was a bit afraid! What if the teachers find out that I was involved? I had another thought. John stole those items from Jack was not in my plan, Jack’s body was bleeding which was also not in my plan, people stood around and seeing me who was one of the helpless people was not a part of my plan either. I started running away from the crowd and tried to get home.
On the way home, I couldn’t stop thinking about what I just have done. I had another feeling which was not scared, but guilt. It was such a shame if I got to face him tomorrow at school. I was not able to do anything at that time to help him. But I could just simply come and stop them, tell them that they’ve won the game because they really did what I dared. But I didn’t.

1 comment:

  1. Remember to show , not tell Vy. Keep working on using adventurous vocabulary.

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